ABSTRACT
Social vulnerability, which “arises out of differential social relations among groups in a given society,” complicates, exacerbates, and undermines the process of postdisaster housing recovery (Fordham et al. 2013, p. 4). That process, often conceptualized neatly as a series of steps and stages that people move through from emergency into temporary shelter/housing and then permanent housing (Quarantelli 1982), is in reality far from sequential or certain.
